Learn about our loan process on new home mortgages in St. Louis, MO. HomeKey will help with your new construction loan journey.
Pre-qualification
Pre-qualification occurs before the loan process actually begins.
HomeKey will gather information about your income and debts, then will make a financial determination about how much house you may be able to afford.
Application
The application is the beginning of the loan process and either occurs after you have found a property you want to buy. You complete a new home mortgage application for a particular loan program and supply all of the required documentation for processing. Various fees and down payment options are discussed at this time. The loan officer will deliver a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) and a Truth-In-Lending Disclosure (TIL) within three days that itemize the rates and estimated costs for obtaining the new construction loan.
Processing of your Estimated Loan
The lender at HomeKey will typically submit the application package to an automated underwriting system that will provide the lender with the necessary documentation needed for loan approval. In some cases, our lender may also manually underwrite an application package.
The lender's processor reviews the credit reports and documentation to verify your employment, debts, and payment histories. If there are unacceptable late payments, collections, judgments, etc., the processor requests a written explanation from you. The processor also reviews the appraisal and survey and checks for property issues that may affect final loan approval. The processor's job is to put together an entire application package for the lender's underwriter.
Underwriting
The lender's underwriter is responsible for determining whether the application package prepared by the processor meets all the lender's criteria. If more information is needed, the loan is put into "suspense" and you will be contacted to supply more documentation.
If HomeKey's underwriter approves the loan, the lender issues a conditional commitment to lend, orders title insurance, works with you to clear all conditions to its commitment to lend, and then schedules a closing time. Conditions to the lender's commitment may include issues with credit, income, or the property that may arise during the processing and underwriting process.
Closing
The closing will occur after all conditions are cleared and the lender issues a full loan approval. At the closing, the lender "funds" the loan with a cashier's check, draft or wire to the closing agent, who disburses funds in exchange for the title transfer to the property. This is the point at which you finish the new construction loan process and actually buy the house, subject to the lender's loan.